Device for sharpening razors and the like



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Patented June 1, 1926.

WILLIAM ERNEST HERON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY.

DEVICE FOR SHARPENING RAZORS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed July 25, 1925. Serial No. 46,070.

An object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, eflicient, and easily operated device for sharpening razors.

With this object in view, my invention consists briefly, in a device comprising a piece of steel wire bent into one or more loops and passing straight from the loop or loops the wire is bent to form a handle, the razor is laid on the straight wire and drawn through the inside of the loop or loops keeping at the same time the razor flat on the wire, which acts as a guide for the razor and contacts against the sides of the loop or loops, which being hardened, sharpens the razor.

My invention also consists of a very novel feature, being very simple in design, and made only of one unit.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown two embodiments of the invention. In this showing: Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 is a plan view showing a safety razor in position for sharpening. Fig. 3 is a section on the line A-A. showing the parts whereon the edge of razor contacts for sharpening. Fig. 4c is a plan view showing an ordinary open razor in position for sharpening. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 is another type of device of which Fig. 5 is a side elevation. Fig. 6 is a plan View. And Fig. 7 is a section on the line BB whereon the razor edge contacts with parts shown for sharpening.

Referring to the drawings of which Figs. 1, 2, 3, and a is a preferred construction owing to having a guide portion for the razor during sharpening. The device as shown in Fig. 1 is made of one unit which is a piece of steel Wire, and from the end 1 the wire is bent around and meeting at 1 forms a handle 2, the wire continues up straight 3 from the handle the required distance and bent into a loop l passing over the portion 3 then bent into a second loop 5 the end of the wire stops near the first loop. In Fig. 2 the straight portion 3 as it nears the loops is bent to a slight angle, the loops also being bent to a slight angle in the opposite direction, the centre line of angle 6 formed by the loops is parallel to the portion 3, which keeps the safety razor blade at the correct position for sharpening. The safety razor blade is gripped by finger and thumb on the ends 7 and 8 and laid on the straight portion 3 and brought between the loops and drawn through them keeping at the same time the safety razor blade flat on the straight portion 3 the edge of the safety razor blade contacts against the portions of the loops 9, 10, and 11, as shown in Fig. 3, the loops being hardened sharpens the safety razor blade.

Fig. & shows an open or ordinary razor inside the loops in position for sharpening.

Figs. 5, 6, and 7, show another embodiment of sharpener with no guide portion for the razor, and consists of a piece of steel wire bent into a loop 12 at its centre lengthwise, then each end of the wire is bent into a quarter loop 13 and let from and at each side of the centre loop 12 and extends up the required distance, each end being bent into a quarter circle 15 and the ends of the wire meeting each other, the extended wire from the loops forms a suitable handle 16. In Fig. 5 as shown the loop 12 and quarter loops 13 and 14 are at a slight angle to allow the razor to be inserted inside the angle 17 of the loops and drawn through them, and contacts against the portions 18, 19, 20, and 21, as shown in Fig. 7, the loops being hardened sharpens the razor. It is preferred that the parts which contact with edge of razor to be clear of each other as shown in Figs. 3 and 7.

It is quite evident from the foregoing description that my device is very simple in design and in operation, the device with the guide port-ions has many advantages as it keeps razor at the correct angle while sharpening.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as preferred examples of the same, and that various changes in the shape and size may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a sharpener for razor blades, a Wire forming a handle and bent into a substantially closed loop, at one end of the handle, forming a space between said handle and loop for reception of said blades.

WILLIAM ERNEST HERON. 

